The Greens call for full transparency from Special Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef Senator Nita Green and GBRMPA CEO Josh Thomas on their recent covert visit to UNESCO in Paris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It comes as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority quietly released data late yesterday showing a shocking 75% of the Great Barrier Reef has again bleached \u2013 the fifth mass coral bleaching now recorded in the past eight years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Transparency from the government about its mission to Paris is particularly important given the World Heritage Committee will meet in India from 21-31 July 2024 and decide whether the Great Barrier Reef meets the criteria for inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNew data revealing three-quarters of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached is shocking, and I have no doubt many Australians will feel a deep sense of despair hearing this news. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s beyond any doubt the \u2018outstanding universal values\u2019 that saw the Great Barrier Reef inscribed as one of the greatest UNESCO World Heritage treasurers are in danger from warming oceans and consistent marine heatwaves, primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSuccessive governments have gone to extraordinary lengths to stop an \u2018in danger\u2019 listing of the Great Barrier Reef by deliberately deceiving the world of the severity of climate change impacts on the reef, while at the same time approving massive new fossil fuel projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s time for no more spin, deceit and distractions. The Greens are calling for full transparency of any recent lobbying of UNESCO by the Albanese government in relation to the Great Barrier Reef. We need trust in the Albanese government\u2019s motivations and actions to save this greatest of natural icons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the Great Barrier Reef\u2019s key management body, GBRMPA, and its parliamentary envoy can\u2019t truly advocate for securing the reef\u2019s future, then who can? \u201cMitigating the impacts of climate change is one thing, but the Great Barrier Reef can\u2019t be protected from the political stupidity of prioritising new coal and gas over coral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUntil the Albanese government stops opening new coal and gas, any claims we are on track to protect the Great Barrier Reef from an ‘in danger’ listing are duplicitous and need to be called out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the Albanese government is serious about protecting the Great Barrier Reef it must treat the root cause of the reef’s decline, which is rising emissions from burning fossil fuels.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens call for full transparency from Special Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef Senator Nita Green and GBRMPA CEO Josh Thomas on their recent covert visit to UNESCO in Paris. It comes as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority quietly released data late yesterday showing a shocking 75% of the Great Barrier Reef … Continue reading “GREENS CALL FOR FULL TRANSPARENCY OF GREAT BARRIER REEF COVERT MISSION”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26028,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26027\/revisions\/26028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cIn 2023 the World Heritage Centre and IUCN declared the Great Barrier Reef \u2018remains under serious threat\u2019 and identified priority recommendations \u2014 many of which including mitigating the impacts of climate change \u2014 to avoid the natural icon being inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n